Chapter 6 - The truth behind the pain
15 years before
A time when a young Dr Kelso strolled round Sacred Heart, not bitter towards anyone or having the power to frighten inters as he did in his later years this was because he himself was an intern. No this was a Dr Kelso still young at heart even though he had decide to join medical school later than most people, this was because he sent most of his life singing songs about his "bunny" and trying to start a band. But it had failed ending up with him with just enough money to fund the first term of medical school and a dingy apartment whilst he studied to become a doctor.
When he entered medical school he instead hit it off with one Robert Cox, a reclusive intern whose last girlfriend was in high school and had dumped him for being "too girly". Together they rode the highs and lows of medical school; it was during these many lose that Kelso became an alcoholic drinking his way through the lows that he came against, it wasn't long till the ritual of Kelso drinking shots from a whiskey flask every hour and by the end of their shift have Cox drag him back to their apartment and them sober him up for their next shift in twelve hours time.
It was this drinking that brought about the hatred between Dr Cox and Kelso and the death of Mrs Rebecca Sophia Dorian, the mother of one Jonathon Dorian. The evening had started of as normal, with Dr Starr running of to sort out Mrs Tillz's heart that seemed to go critical every time Dr Starr was on duty and Kelso taking the first shot of many that evening from his hip flask. With that they continued their rounds it wasn't till later they learned about a car crash on the Los Angeles slip road, by this time Kelso was out of his head even more so by the time Mrs Dorian was brought into A & E he was totally off his head. The only reason that Dr Starr or any of the other members of Sacred Hearts "higher archly" didn't send Kelso home was because of the constant flow of patients from the 17 car pile up on the Los Angeles slip round. Every bed was in use even the most incompetent intern had their hands full, it was only at the end of the shift when Dr Starr and Cox came to find Kelso to finally kick him out of the hospital for being drunk did they realise that Kelso had injected an overdose of painkillers into Mrs Dorian killing her.
When the inquiry reporting it's findings on her death it concluded that her injuries sustained in the crash killed her not, the drugs administered by Dr Kelso. Luckily for Kelso, Starr and Cox managed to smuggle Kelso out of the hospital and made it look like that he had left early because of a head ache, so only the three of them knew what really happened on that night.